Bottle warmer - worth it?

scherpha · April 2011

I am BF but am pumping a little to get DD used to the bottle for DC. We have been warming her bottles in a cup of hot water. It isn't bad but I am wondering if a bottle warmer is worth it? Do I need to have the one that goes with my bottles? TIA!

6fsn · April 2011

We have a second hand First Years that we also used with #1. DH feels better using the warmer because it takes out the guess work. It takes less time and uses less water. They run under $20 at Walmart.

cfranklin1 · April 2011

I have the Munchkin warmer - it runs around $16 at Walmart and Target. It only takes 90 seconds, and we love it. It also sterilizes pacifiers and later we can use it to warm baby food jars.

pomrom · April 2011

I don't think its worth it. When I was pumping and we had to heat a bottle, we would just heat some water on the stove and after that was good and hot, we put the bottle in it for a minute and it worked just fine.

I guess it might be handy to have if you are on the go all the time but being home most of the time I was pumping, a bottle warmer was not a necessity for me.